This lesson allows students to explore the importance of weather prediction and the Internet's role in changing the way weather is reported. By participating in an Internet scavenger hunt, students will come to a greater appreciation of the role Internet weather prediction plays in their own lives as well as the lives of people all over the world.
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As
part
of
this
lesson
plan,
students
will
be
asked
to
read
a
news
article
and
to
construct
and
explain
theories
for
the
decline
of
the
water
level
of
the
Great
Lakes.
They
should
be
able
to
locate
the
Great
Lakes
on
a
map,
compare
them
to
lakes
in
other
parts
of
the
world,
hypothesize
what
might
happen
in
the
short
term
if
global
temperatures
continue
to
rise,
and
to
consider
these
seemingly
contradictory
...
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The Antarctic Meteorological Research Center focuses on observational Antarctic meteorological research, providing real-time and archived meteorological data and observations and provides recent and archived imagery of icebergs, including data and imagery.
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Grade level:
Middle (6-8), High (9-12), College (13-14), College (15-16), Graduate / Professional

Discovering
Plate
Boundaries
is
based
on
5
world
maps
containing
earthquake,
volcano,
topography,
satellite
gravity,
and
seafloor
age
data.
The
novel
aspect
of
the
exercise
is
the
"jigsaw"
manner
in
which
student
groups
access
the
maps
and
use
them
to
discover,
classify,
and
describe
plate
boundary
types.
The
exercise
is
based
only
on
observation
and
description,
which
makes
it
useful
at
a
wide
variety
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Grade level:
Middle (6-8), High (9-12), College (13-14), College (15-16)

This
lesson
uses
NASA
satellite
data
to
correlate
cloud
cover
over
Africa
to
the
solar
declination.
The
student
will
access
NASA
data
using
the
MY
NASA
DATA
Live
Access
Server
and
import
the
data
into
Excel
spreadsheet
software.
The
student
will
identify
the
relationship
between
solar
declination
and
the
four
seasons
and
relate
seasonal
solar
radiation
patterns
to
cloud
formation.
The
four
seasons
...
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The
purpose
of
this
activity
is
to
measure
the
aerosol
optical
thickness
of
the
atmosphere
(how
much
of
the
sun's
light
is
scattered
or
absorbed
by
particles
suspended
in
the
air).
Students
point
a
GLOBE
sun
photometer
at
the
sun
and
record
the
largest
voltage
reading
they
obtain
on
a
digital
voltmeter
connected
to
the
photometer.
Students
observe
sky
conditions
near
the
sun,
perform
the
Cloud,
Optional
...
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The purpose of this activity is to introduce students to the concept of relative air mass and demonstrate how solar elevation angle affects the intensity of sunlight that reaches an observer on the ground. Students work in teams to calculate air mass using simple geometry. Teacher background materials are included.
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'The purpose of the resource is to meaure the alkalinity of a water sample. Students will use an alkalinity kit to measure the alkalinity in the water at their hydrology site. The exact procedure depends on the instructions in the alkalinity kit used.
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The purpose of this resource is to measure the conductivity of water at a freshwater hydrology site. Students calibrate and take electrical conductivity measurements using an electrical conductivity meter. Students estimate the total dissolved solids from the electrical conductivity measurements.
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This
resource
provides
instructions
on
how
to
log
atmosphere
data
using
a
Davis
weather
station.
A
weather
station
is
setup
to
measure
and
record
atmospheric
measurements
at
15-minute
intervals
and
can
be
transferred
to
the
GLOBE
program
via
email.
Students
can
view
data
for
their
school
that
are
continuous
and
show
variations
within
a
day.
The
data
collected
includes
wind
speed
and
direction
and
...
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